From jsis@u.washington.edu Fri May 19 08:05:03 2000 Received: from jason03.u.washington.edu (root@jason03.u.washington.edu [140.142.77.10]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW00.05/8.9.3+UW99.09) with ESMTP id IAA11040 for ; Fri, 19 May 2000 08:05:02 -0700 Received: from saul7.u.washington.edu (jsis@saul7.u.washington.edu [140.142.82.2]) by jason03.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW00.05/8.9.3+UW00.01) with ESMTP id IAA25734 for ; Fri, 19 May 2000 08:05:01 -0700 Received: from localhost (jsis@localhost) by saul7.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW00.05/8.9.3+UW99.09) with ESMTP id IAA13714 for ; Fri, 19 May 2000 08:05:01 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 19 May 2000 08:05:00 -0700 (PDT) From: Jackson School of International Studies To: jsis-uw@u.washington.edu Subject: The Jackson School Calendar, May 19, 2000 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII the JACKSON SCHOOL CALENDAR May 19, 2000 ALL EVENTS ARE OPEN TO THE PUBLIC & ARE FREE UNLESS OTHERWISE INDICATED. *New Events (or changes) not previously listed are indicated by an asterisk* Abbreviations: Asian L&L = Department of Asian Languages & Literature CIBER = Center for International Business Education & Research CSDE = Center for Studies in Demography & Ecology CPHRS = Center for Public Health Research & Evaluation CWES = Center for West European Studies, JSIS GTTL = Global Trade, Transportation & Logistics Studies JSIS = The Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies LAS = Latin American Studies Program/JSIS NELC = Department of Near Eastern Languages & Civilization REECAS = Russian, East European, and Central Asia Studies, JSIS Slavic L&L = Department of Slavic Languages & Literature SMA = School of Marine Affairs _____________________________________________________________________ May 19 Christmas-izing Ramadan: Television and Holiday Consumption. 2:30 - 3:30, Music Bldg., Room 223. Speaker: Walter Armbrust, Georgetown University. Sponsor: Middle East Center/JSIS. Info: 543-4227. On Critical Globality (Part of the lecture series "Borderlands of Globality: Transitional Spaces and Struggles"). 12:30 pm, Smith 102. Speakers: Alys Weinbaum, English, UW; Brent Edwards, English, Rutgers. Sponsors: National Resource Center in International Studies/JSIS; Humanities Center; CWES; Canadian Studies; College of Arts and Sciences. Info: 685-2707. Mongol Marriage Practices. 12:30 - 1:30 pm, Denny Hall 215. Speaker: Aaron Fields, Mongolist, Seattle. Sponsor: NELC. Info: 543-9963. Sex and the State: Prostitution Taxes in the Republican China. 11:00 am - 1:00 pm, Thomson 317. Speaker: Elizabeth Remick, Political Science, Tufts University. Sponsor: National Resource Center of International Studies. Info: 543-1666. The Promise Ahead: A Vision of Hope and Action for Humanity's Future. Registration 11:45 am, Program Noon - 1:30, Booksigning 1:30, The Harbor Club, 801 Second Avenue. Speaker: Duane Elgin, Author of "Voluntary Simplicity." Sponors: Cityclub; World Affairs Council. Cost: $15 City Club members; $18 Guests and members of Co-Presenting Organizations; $21 General Public. Registration and info: 682-7395. Yosano Akiko: A Question of Identity. 1:30 - 3:00 pm, Smith 211. Speaker: Laurel Rasplica Rodd, University of Colorado. Sponsor: Amy Ohta. Info: 543-4391. May 19-20 Conference: "Communicating Civic Engagement: Citizen Identity and Changing Conceptions of Politics in Europe and the United States." Time, location and other details tba. Sponsor: CWES/JSIS. Info: 543-1675. May 20 Teacher Workshop: Democracy and Civic Engagement in the 21st Century in Western Europe and the United States (Held in conjunction with the Conference: Communicating Civic Engagement). 11:30 am - 4:30 pm, HUB 309. Sponsor: CWES/JSIS. Cost: $25 (includes lunch, materials, and parking). Registration and info: 543-1675. May 22 Imagining, Experiencing and Practicing the Geopolitics of India-Pakistan Borders (Part of the lecture series "Borderlands of Globality: Transitional Spaces and Struggles"). 12:30 pm, Smith 102. Speaker: Sanjay Chaturvedi, Political Science, Panjab University. Sponsors: National Resource Center in International Studies/JSIS; Humanities Center; CWES; Canadian Studies; College of Arts and Sciences. Info: 685-2707. May 23 The Andrew Markus Memorial Lecture: "On the Evolution of Hindi as a Language of Literature." 7:00 pm, Walker-Ames Room, Kane Hall, reception to follow presentation. Speaker: Ronald Stuart McGregor, Lecturer in Hindi, University of Cambridge. Sponsors: South Asia Center/JSIS; Asian L & L. Info: 543-4996. * Democratization and Social Protest in Southeast Asia. 1:30 - 3:30 pm, Thomson 317. Speaker: Vincent Boudreau, Dept. of Political Science, City College of New York. Sponsor: National Resource Center in International Studies/JSIS. Info: 543-1666. May 24 US Policy in the New Century: The US and the Global Economy (Part of the Lecture Series "American Policy in the New Century"). 7:30 pm, Kane Hall 130. Speaker: George Russell, Chairman, Frank Russell Company. Sponsors: JSIS; World Affairs Council. Info: 543-4842. The Americanization of Salome: Sex, Race, and the Careers of the Vulgar Princess. 3:30 - 4:30 pm, Cunningham Hall 116. Speaker: Susan Glenn, Dept. of History. Info: 543-9531. Curitiba and Parana Today. 7:00 pm, Architecture Building, Room 147. Speaker: Jaime Lerner, Governor of Parana, Brazil. Sponsors: Dept. of Urban Planning and Design; The Graduate School. Reservations: contact Janet Jones at For info: 616-1825. May 25 A Mongol Film: Close to Eden. English subtitles. 12:30 - 2:30 pm, Denny Hall 123. Sponsor: NELC. Info: 543-9963. Remembering Vietnam. 3:30 - 5:00 pm, Thomson 135. Speaker: Susan Jeffords, Division Dean for Social Sciences. Sponsor: Southeast Asian Studies/JSIS. Info: 543-9606. * The Greatest Threat: Iraq, Weapons of Mass Destruction, and the Crisis of Global Security. 7:30 pm, Kane Hall 120. Speaker: Mark Schneider, Director, Peace Corps. Sponsor: World Affairs Council. 441-5910. * Chinese Metropolitan Development in Transition. 3:30 - 5:00 pm, Thomson 134. Speaker: Yan Xiapei, Vice Dean of the College of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Vice Director of the Center of Urban and Regional Studies, Zhongstan University. Sponsor: China Studies Program/JSIS. Info: 543-4391. May 26 Book Reading by Author Raj Kamal Jha. A journalist in Calcutta, Jha will read from his book "The Blue Bedspread." 3:30 pm, University Bookstore. Info: 634-3400. Household Labor Supply and Intrahousehold Allocation of Assets: Impacts of Independent Taxation in the UK. 12:30 - 2:00 pm, Parrington Forum, Room 309. Speaker: Jennifer Ward-Batts, Population Studies Center, Univ. of Michigan. Sponsor: CSDE. Info: dkuo@u.washington.edu Sasha Sokolov's Post-Utopian Fantasy: Sots Art and Palisandriia. 2:30 pm, Smith 307. Speaker: Larissa Rudova, Associate Professor of Russian, Pomona College. Sponsor: Slavic L & L. Info: 543-7344. May 30 Thirty-Third Annual Burke Memorial Lecture: "The Sacred Depths of Nature." 7:30 pm, Kane Hall, Room 120. Speaker: Dr. Ursula Wiltshire Goodenough, author of the book by the same title and Professor, Dept. of Biology, Washington University, St. Louis. Sponsors: Burke Museum; Comparative Religion Program/JSIS; and numerous others. Cost: $8 general; $6 Burke members, seniors, students, UW faculty and staff. Tickets at door beginning at 6:30 pm. Info: 543-7907. May 31 Book Reading by Author Pramila Jayapal from her book "Pilgrimage: One Woman's Return to a Changing India." 7:00 pm, University Bookstore. Info: 634-3400. Conservation of Biological and Cultural Diversity in the Boca de Toro Islands of Panama's Chiriqui Lagoon. 12:30 - 1:20 pm, Thomson 317. Speaker: Linda Storm, Wetlands Ecologist, EPA. Sponsor: LAS/JSIS. Info: 685-3435. June 1 * The Modernity and Folk Cenceptions of Education Space: An Investigation in Three Villages in Fujian and Taiwan. 3:30 - 5:00 pm, Thomson 317. Speaker: Wang Mingming, Professor and Chair, Anthropology Research Center, Beida Visiting Professor of Anthropology, University of Chicago. Sponsor: China Studies Program/JSIS. Info: 543-4391. June 2 Radio on the Edge: International Broadcasting in South Asia. 2:30 - 3:30, Music Bldg., Room 223. Speaker: Brian Silver, Voice of America. Sponsor: Middle East Center/JSIS. Info: 543-4227. Eco-Bio-Borderlands (Part of the lecture series "Borderlands of Globality: Transitional Spaces and Struggles"). 12:30 pm, Smith 102. Speaker: Devon Pena, Anthropology, UW. Sponsors: National Resource Center in International Studies/JSIS; Humanities Center; CWES; Canadian Studies; College of Arts and Sciences. Info: 685-2707. Attitudes Toward Women's Labor Force Participation in 24 Countries. 12:30 - 2:00 pm, Parrington Forum, Room 309. Speaker: Judy K. Treas, Dept. of Sociology, Univ. of California, Irvine. Sponsor: CSDE. Info: dkuo@u.washington.edu June 8 * China: Fiscal Reform and Policy Option. 1:30 - 3:00 pm, location tba. Speaker: Li Keping, Deputy Director-General, Dept. of Macro-Economic Systems, State Council Office for Restructuring the Economic System, People's Republic of China. Sponsor: China Studies Program/JSIS. Info: 543-4391. June 12 2000 Consular Association Reception (Honoring Consuls posted to Washington State). 5:30 pm, Columbia Tower Club. Sponsor: World Affairs Organization. Info: 441-5910. June 21 Klezmer in America. 7:30 pm, Seafirst Executive Education Center, UW campus. Speaker: Michael Horowitz, Dept. of Ethnomusicology, UW. Sponsors: Jewish Studies Program/JSIS; Germanics; Walter Chapin Simpson Center for the Humanities; REECAS. Info: 543-4243. June 26 - 28 Rethinking the Line: A Canada/U.S. Border Conference. Vancouver, British Columbia. Sponsors: Canadian Studies Center/JSIS; Policy Research Secretariat, Federal Government, Ottawa; Univ. of British Columbia. Info: 543-6269. June 28 A History of Yiddish Puppet Theatre. 7:30 pm, Seafirst Executive Education Center, UW campus. Speaker: Eddie Portnoy, Jewish Theological Seminary of America. Sponsor: Jewish Studies Program/JSIS; Germanics; Walter Chapin Simpson Center for the Humanities; REECAS. Info: 543-4243. June 28 - 29 JSIS Summer Seminar: "The Family Across Time and Cultures." Time and location tba. For teachers of grades 7 - 12. Speakers will present different perspectives on families from around the world. Info: 543-9606. Downloadable registration form available at: http://jsis.artsci.washington.edu/programs/mideast/events.htm July 5 Inventing Yiddish News. 7:30 pm, Seafirst Executive Education Center, UW campus. Speaker: Sarah Abrevaya Stein, History/Jewish Studies, UW. Sponsors: Jewish Studies Program/JSIS; Germanics; Walter Chapin Simpsin Center for the Humanities; REECAS. Info: 543-4243. July 10 - 11 Teacher Workshop: The European Union and the United States Today (A two-day workshop focusing on the process of European integration and EU-US political and economics interactions. Designed for teachers grades 7 - 14). 9:00 am - 5:00 pm, Walker Ames Room, Kane Hall. Sponsors: European Union Center/JSIS; Washington Council on International Trade. Registration and info: 616-2415. July 12 Yiddish in America: Forging the Mainstream of Jewish History. 7:30 pm, Seafirst Executive Education Center, uw campus. Speaker: Rakhmiel Peltz, Drexel University. Sponsors: Jewish Studies Program/JSIS; Germanics; Walter Chapin Simpson Center for the Humanities; REECAS. Info: 543-4243. July 21 First Annual University of Washington Summer Arts Festival presents Jewish Jazz musician John Zorn and Masada. Meany Theatre. Cost: $28. Call 543-4800 for details. ****************************************************************************** The Jackson School Calendar is updated and e-mailed weekly. There is no charge for subscribing. To subscribe to the on-line Calendar, or for further information, please post a message to: JSIS@u.washington.edu. Thank you To request disability accommodations, contact the office of the ADA Coordinator, at least ten days in advance of the event. 543-6450 (voice); 543-6452 (TDD); 685-3885 (FAX); access@u.washington.edu (E-mail). The Henry M. Jackson . School of International Studies University of Washington Box # 353650 Seattle, WA 98195-3650 Charles Paxton,Secretary to the Director Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies Box 353650, University of Washington Seattle, WA 98195 Ph: (206) 543-4372 .